Prof. Kwaku Adutwum Ayim Boakye was a Professor of Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana where he served as the Dean for International Relations. Prof. Boakye holds a PhD (2008) in Tourism from the University of Cape Coast and a Postgraduate Diploma in Hospitality Operations (2004) from the Georgia State University, Atlanta USA. He had previously been Head, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Vice Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, both in University of Cape Coast.

He brought to the position as Vice-Chancellor of CCTU more than 20 years of experience as a lecturer, scholar, administrator and entrepreneur. Prof Boakye has played key roles on a number of projects/ committees for the Government of Ghana and other International Organizations on tourism and hospitality development. Prof. Boakye has also worked internationally, having worked as a visiting Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in the United States of America and undertaken several working visits to Universities in United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Botswana and Nigeria as a visiting Professor, conference speaker or trainer.

He is also an external examiner for numerous universities in Ghana, Africa and Europe and is a reviewer for various Scopus-indexed academic journals in tourism. He has so far successfully supervised more than 35 postgraduate students (PhD and M.Phil). Prof Boakye is a Christian and is married with two children.